The author, in placing this little book before the public, feels that in so doing he adds his mite to the useful and timely literature of the day. The ground has not been covered before, and all travelers in the Alaskan Peninsula will appreciate to its fullest extent the purpose of this work. The aborigines of this far away country have no written language, and this work aims to put before the traveler or trader a means of communication with this people which it is hoped will be of mutual benefit to both. Many years of residence in this...

The Alaskan-Aleutian arc has a history of rupturing in large and great
earthquakes. The most recent sequence began in 1938 and has ruptured
almost the entire arc from southern Alaska to the western Aleutians
(Figure 1). This sequence includes five great earthquakes: the 1938 Alaskan,
1946 Aleutian, 1957 (Central) Aleutian, 1964 Prince William Sound (or
Alaskan), and 1965 Rat Islands earthquakes. Three of these five-the
1957, 1964, and 1965 earthquakes-are among the 10 largest earthquakes
of the 20th century.
These earthquakes are clearly important to those who assess seismic
hazards.

When you buy your first car, you experience an increase in demand for gasoline because
gasoline is pretty useful for cars and not so much for other things. An imminent
hurricane increases the demand for plywood (to protect windows), batteries, candles,
and bottled water. An increase in demand is represented by a movement of the entire
curve to the northeast (up and to the right), which represents an increase in the
marginal value v (movement up) for any given unit, or an increase in the number of
units demanded for any given price (movement to the right). ...

Favorable ratings from these three credit agencies were crucial for the successful
sale of the securities based on subprime residential mortgages and other debt obligations.
The sales of these bonds, in turn, were an important underpinning for the
fifi nancing of the self-reinforcing price-rise bubble in the U.S. housing market. When
house prices ceased rising in mid 2006 and then began to decline, the default rates
on the mortgages underlying these securities rose sharply, and those initial ratings
proved to be excessively optimistic.